Chapter 40“Pull over here, can you?” Hiroshi said to Ueno. He came back out of the convenience store where they’d stopped holding an ice pack for his ribs. Easing into the front seat with a groan, he put the ice pack under his shirt.
Sakaguchi said, “I told you to be careful.”
“That was in the game center in Shibuya.”
“Just breathe through it.”
“I’d stop breathing if I could.”
“Once it bruises up, you’ll be all right.”
“It’s not far from here,” Hiroshi told Ueno, breathing in hard when he pointed the direction.
“First lesson in sumo is where to land,” Sakaguchi said.
The lime-green building of Sono Accountancy looked grimy in the false twilight created by the taller buildings around it. Ueno parked nearby, and Osaki walked toward a convenience store, searching for something to eat.
